Fort Oloma

Fort Oloma was a US Army fort located in what is now Tyler County, Texas. The fort was built on the border with Tejas, a province of Spain and later Mexico, and it was the location of the Siege of Fort Oloma in 1817, where the US Army repelled a Mexican Army siege.

History
Fort Oloma was established by the United States on the border of the Louisiana Territory with Mexico's territory of Tejas, and the fort was located along two trade routes. Major Ryan Cooper, the commandant of the fort, held off raids by the Mexican Army and Lakota on the frontier, and the US Army held off a Mexican siege in 1817. The siege saw the Americans hold out until a regiment of US troops arrived to help the garrison in destroying the Mexican siege camps, and Amelia Black and the Falcon Company built two railroads along the trade routes in the fort to extend the supply routes leading to the fort.